...reflected, as she used to do in Florence, that she was glad to live because she could lighten Borrow—she had simply lived, with so energetic an impulse to...of the cross is an illusion, the sorrow is only the trner. While the strength is in my arm I will stretch it out to the fainting ; while the light visits...

...compli- j cated for her with all the special ties of marriage, the State, and religious disciplcship, and when these had disappointed her trust, the shock...shall seek the forsaken." And then the past arose with afresh appeal to her. Her work in this green valley was done, and the emotions that were disengaged...

...need and do the work which cried aloud to be done, that the reasons for living, enduring, laboring, never took the form of argument. The experience was...suffering that I can help is certain ; if the glory or the cross is an illusion, the sorrow is only the truer. While the strength is in my arm I will stretch...

...herself had come to their aid, as she moved about with the little brown motherless baby in her arms? And now she said, 'It was mere baseness in me ' to desire...light visits my eyes, they 'shall seek the forsaken.' It was not necessary now that any priest should urge her to go back to her home. She had shaken herself...

...for moral judgments. To use the words which George Eliot puts into the mouth of Romola de' Bardi: " If everything else is doubtful, this suffering that...light visits my eyes, they shall seek the forsaken." In obedience, then, to this law of development, the upright man will strive to realise his highest...

...for moral judgments. To use the words which George Eliot puts into the mouth of Romola de' Bardi : "If everything else is doubtful, this suffering that I can help is certain j if the glory of the cross is an illusion, the sorrow is only the truer. While the strength is in...

...from Romola quoted above, about Romola's activity in the valley, concludes with her recognition that "if the glory of the cross is an illusion, the sorrow is only the truer" (R 527). Eliot is sounding an old note here: Romola's "new baptism" (R 527) through suffering looks...

...pursues pleasures and disaster comes, one experiences "the one form 33 Eliot, Romola, 590. 34 Romola says "If everything else is doubtful, this suffering that...cross is an illusion, the sorrow is only the truer." (Eliot, Romola, 650.) 35 Eliot, Romola, 651. 36 Eliot, Romola, 652. 37 Eliot, Romola, 652. of sorrow...